I FOUND IT
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Tweet by pj evans:
Cars have windows and can move. Houses have windows but can’t move. So it’s not the windows that make the car go, it’s something else entirely
Reply by gelledegg:
this is what ancient philosophy is like
Reply by airyairyaucontraire:
Diogenes driving a mobile home into the symposium to ruin Plato’s day.
I think it’s just because the house windows are usually rectangle windows and rectangle windows can’t roll without like a lumpy road. If you just put the house on a lumpy road I think it would move
Thank you for your service to science, but did you get the length of the base to match the rounded length of the bump, because if those two are mismatched, you’re going to get a jamming effect rather than a rolling effect.
I FOUND IT
Text:
Tweet by pj evans:
Cars have windows and can move. Houses have windows but can’t move. So it’s not the windows that make the car go, it’s something else entirely
Reply by gelledegg:
this is what ancient philosophy is like
Reply by airyairyaucontraire:
Diogenes driving a mobile home into the symposium to ruin Plato’s day.
I think it’s just because the house windows are usually rectangle windows and rectangle windows can’t roll without like a lumpy road. If you just put the house on a lumpy road I think it would move
Oh shoot you’re right. I’m gonna try that real quick.
Edit: it didn’t work
Thank you for your service to science, but did you get the length of the base to match the rounded length of the bump, because if those two are mismatched, you’re going to get a jamming effect rather than a rolling effect.
you should post that!
Oh! You go ahead. I’m shy.